Re: speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Does this possibly have to do with buffer flushing choices by the > filesystem? Maybe xfs syncs after some operations (like rm -rf) that ext3 Probably not. > does not. > > Try adding 'sync' after both steps and see if that changes performance. I did, see "Note 3" in the wiki. It's actually XF

Re: RFS: QtOctave -- A Qt front-end to Octave

2007-09-16 Thread Nicolas Pettiaux
2007/6/21, Rafa Rodriguez Galván <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, Jordi and guys of the Debian Octave Group. > > I'm a member of this group (not DD), though my obligations have made > me less active in the last year. Between them, I'm the responsible > of the Free Software Office of the Cadiz University

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 16 September 2007 01:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: > I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other > license like LGPL or BSD. > > The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license and it > may require justifying later on if they decide to get picky. I've

Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
Hi! I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: cat blub |multipipe 'cat >/dev/null' 'less' 'wc' I find this little tool very handy in many cases. Something like this should be available in D

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, > It's one of the packages suggested by the php-image-graph package which > is already in Debian. > Graphes can optionally have their axes graduated using roman numbers by > using the Image_Graph_DataPreprocessor_RomanNumerals preprocessor. > > But in fact, I packaged it because it's a de

Re: Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, Christopher Zimmermann schrieb: > I just packaged the small multipipe tool from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. IANADD but anyways, here are some (hopefully useful) comments: At first: You would help potential sponsors a lot if you could post more information about your package

Re: Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:32:13PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > Hi! > > I just packaged the small multipipe tool from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. > > It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: > > cat blub |multipipe 'cat >/dev/null' 'less' 'wc' Neat.

Re: RFS: pyxplot

2007-09-16 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
2007/9/15, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > * the package looks good, it is lintian/linda clean and builds in > > > cowbuilder I will check and upload it this evening > > > * Why not to join the PAPT team and let it maintain as part of it? > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonA

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Yann Rouillard
Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007 à 16:30 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit > Because re-doing the packaging of this is not that difficult, I'd suggest to > just leave the package for now. If someone actually wants to use the > functionality they can make the upload, especially because of the highly

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:19:20PM +0200, Yann Rouillard wrote: > > After Raphael's advice, I searched a bit and according to: > http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html > A pear package with php license would be rejected. > > There are already some pear packages with php licence in D

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Yann Rouillard
Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007 à 16:26 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : > On Sunday 16 September 2007 01:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other > > license like LGPL or BSD. > > > > The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this li

Re: Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, On Sunday 16 September 2007, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > I just packaged the small multipipe tool from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. > > It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: > > cat blub |multipipe 'cat >/dev/null' 'less' 'wc' > > I find this little too

Re: RFS: mirmon

2007-09-16 Thread Mario Iseli
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 01:55:03AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Dear mentors, Hello Hideki > I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "mirmon". It is useful for > minitoring mirror servers. For example, I'm using this for monitoring > Japanese Debian mirrors. > see http://test.mithril-lin

Re: Man pages and UTF-8

2007-09-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:39:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 02:25:26AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:55:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Is this what your "hack" pipeline implements? If so, I'd love to see it; > > > if not, I'm happy to

up-to-date policy for PHP PEAR modules

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, (I apologize for cross-posting but I think this subject concerns webapps because original draft, pkg-php because it's the place for PHP PEAR modules and debian-mentors because there are a lot of ITP/RFS last weeks. Please respect the Reply-To/Mail-Followup-To, which is set to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: RFS: php-text-password

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:43:15PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-text-password". debian/control: * set a (versionned) depend on php-pear instead of php5 * change short description to "PHP PEAR module for creating passwords" * improve

Re: RFS: php-i18nv2

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:40PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-i18nv2". debian/control: * set a (versionned) depend on php-pear instead of php5 * improve short description and begin with "PHP PEAR module for..." *

Re: RFS: php-mdb2 (2nd attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:32:06PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-mdb2". debian/changelog: * it may be fun to have the date when you finish your package, use 'dch -r' before uploading for example ;-) debian/control: * set a versionn

Re: RFS: php-text-password

2007-09-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Gregory Colpart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > debian/control: > * set a (versionned) depend on php-pear instead of php5 > * change short description to "PHP PEAR module for creating passwords" > * improve long description with real manual: > http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.text.text-passwo

Re: RFS: php-mdb2-driver-mysql (2nd Attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:36:51PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-mdb2-driver-mysql". I think all my comments for your php-mbd2 are useful for this one. In addition, your long description is so bad : you don't need repeat the short des

Re: RFS: php-i18nv2

2007-09-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Gregory Colpart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > debian/control: > debian/copyright: > debian/README.Debian Ok. > debian/postinst and debian/prerm: > * you don't need this file because register/unregister is dealt > with pear.mk cdbs class. BTW there ware some discussions about > the way to i

Re: RFS: php-i18nv2

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:43:18PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > > > debian/postinst and debian/prerm: > > * you don't need this file because register/unregister is dealt > > with pear.mk cdbs class. BTW there ware some discussions about > > the way to install/remove modules and

Re: RFS: php-mdb2 (2nd attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 16/09/2007, Gregory Colpart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > [...] > - there is a strange condition in license text: > ---8<--- > // | Neither the name of Manuel Lemos, Tomas V.V.Cox, Stig. S. Bakken,| > // | Lukas Smith nor the names of his contributors may be used to endorse | > //

Re: RFS: php-net-pop3

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:23:27PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-net-pop3". debian/control: * set a (versionned) depend on php-pear * begin short description to "PHP PEAR module for ..." * add Homepage field debian/copyright: * you m

Re: RFS: php-mdb2-driver-mysql (2nd Attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Gregory Colpart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > More general comment: please don't ITP/RFS a package for just > "dh-make-php Foo_Bar.tgz". You should read packaging docs and be aware > of what is a debian maintainer. Point taken. I do plan on packaging a GPLed application and framework that will u

Re: RFS: php-mdb2 (2nd attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:48:11PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > - there is a strange condition in license text: > > ---8<--- > > // | Neither the name of Manuel Lemos, Tomas V.V.Cox, Stig. S. Bakken,| > > // | Lukas Smith nor the names of his contributors may be used to endorse | > > //

Re: RFS: php-mdb2-driver-mysql (2nd Attempt)

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:53:19PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > > > More general comment: please don't ITP/RFS a package for just > > "dh-make-php Foo_Bar.tgz". You should read packaging docs and be aware > > of what is a debian maintainer. > > Point taken. I do plan on packaging